Last updated: 5 November 2026. Operator: Łukasz Dulniak, address to be updated, hello@remoteguides.net.
This page explains how Remote Guides content is made, what artificial intelligence does and what a human does, where the images come from and how to ask for a correction or a takedown.
Who writes the guides
Remote Guides articles are bylined by writer personas. These personas are fictional. They are not real people and their biographies are invented. They are shown as monogram plates, not faces. We say so on every author page and in the site footer. No real person’s name, likeness or data was used to create them.
Because the writers are not real, our guides never claim first-hand experience. You will not read “when I visited” on this site. Everything we publish is curated from sources, not from trips.
How a guide is made
- Research brief. For each country or place we collect a brief from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage extracts, coordinates, official sources (for example government travel advisories) and search demand data.
- AI draft. A language model writes the guide from that brief in a fixed format. It is instructed to use only facts from the brief, to hedge anything that changes (prices, timetables, visa rules) and to write fewer words rather than invent detail.
- Automatic checks. Scripts check the format, length, links and a list of banned phrases, and reject drafts that mention the wrong place or contain source chatter.
- Cross-check. A second model reviews the images against the text and the text for wrong places, invented specifics, outdated claims and safety framing.
- Human oversight and publication. The editor decides what is published, is responsible for it, reviews guides by sample and every guide the checks flag, and acts on every correction. Countries under official travel advisories carry a banner that points you to current official advice. Conflict zones are not written up as travel guides.
- Review date. Every guide shows a “Reviewed” or “Updated” date. When we correct or update a guide, the date changes.
AI disclosure
This is our disclosure under Article 50(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the AI Act).
- What AI does: drafts the text of guides, articles and travel tips from the research brief; writes image descriptions; reviews drafts in the cross-check step; generates the illustrations labelled “Illustration: AI-generated”.
- What a human does: chooses what to cover, writes the rules and the research pipeline, reviews guides by sample and every guide the checks flag, answers corrections and complaints, and keeps the review dates current.
- Who is responsible: Łukasz Dulniak, the operator, holds editorial responsibility for everything published on remoteguides.net. The persona names are labels, not responsible persons.
A read-only connection for AI assistants is planned; it will give them the same published text. What an assistant then tells you is produced by that assistant, not by us; check important details on the linked guide.
Images
Photographs. Most photographs come from Wikimedia Commons. We use only files under licences that allow reuse: CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA and the Free Art License. Under each photograph we print the photographer’s name or user name, the name of the licence with a link to its text, and a link to the source file. We serve our own copies rather than hot-linking Commons. We do not use photographs of real people as the subject of an image.
AI-generated illustrations. Some articles that are not about a specific place use illustrations made with image-generation tools. They are labelled “Illustration: AI-generated” under the image and are never presented as photographs.
Alt text. Image descriptions say what the image actually shows and are checked in the cross-check step.
Photo credits, corrections and takedown
If you are the photographer or rights holder of an image on this site, you can ask us to:
- correct the credit (your name, user name or the licence named);
- add or change the link to the source file;
- remove the image, or replace it, even if the licence would allow us to keep it.
Email hello@remoteguides.net with the link to the page, the image (its position or file name) and what you want changed. If you ask for a correction, tell us the credit you want. We do not ask for more proof than the Commons file page or the equivalent. We answer and act within three working days. We publish names or user names and licences only, never email addresses.
If you believe a text on the site infringes your copyright, use the same address. Short quotations with attribution are made under the quotation right (§ 51 of the German Copyright Act, UrhG).
Affiliate links, advertising and sponsorship
Today there are none. Remote Guides carries no advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsored content and no paid placements. Nobody pays us to be mentioned in a guide, and we do not recommend hotels, operators or shops by name.
If that changes, we will say so here and on every page where it applies: an affiliate link will be labelled as such next to the link, and a sponsored article will carry a visible label at the top. We will never let a sponsor change what a guide says about safety or visas.
Corrections and complaints
If something in a guide is wrong, out of date or unfair, email hello@remoteguides.net with the page link and what you think should change. Point us to an official source if you have one. We reply within five working days. If we agree, we correct the guide and update its review date. If we do not agree, we tell you why. Takedown requests for images are handled within three working days, as described above.